the only 'children' they are protecting are the ones who are 24 years old and came on a boat then claimed to be 14 and are now sat in your local public school.
A lot of states don't have beastality laws. It's not because politicians think it's cool to fuck animals
They do, but that’s not the reason.
Africa/ME - "it offers us a dumping ground for our excess poor young men."
the first one was alright.
yeah vikings valhalla is netflix slop
You know what
Who among us hasn't gotten to work and had to open up or something, only to realise the keys were in your other pants or something, a change in routine or distraction threw out your normal process and so you left it at home. I expect this to happen repeatedly actually. Won't be the first, won't be the last. But you'd hope it was rare.
The $15 coupon though? Fuck off.
- Are guys like Friedman and Sowell right about global trade,
If you assume all cows are spherical and don't weigh anything and don't interact when they collide.
Where it butts up against the real world is where you lose the ability to produce everything at home in case of war or hostile foreign actors. But that one is obvious. That flaw is well explored.
Another place it fails is when you fail to consider conglomerates or nations acting 1 industry at a time to advantage themselves. The Chinese for example will happily subsidise orange farming, block your oranges from sale in their country, take advantage of what is basically slave labour to create a huge surplus of their oranges and then dump their oranges on your shores, killing your local farms. Good for consumers that year right? Well now your local orange farmers are bankrupt, and maybe china even bought that land up. Either way, now china controls the market. It might remain somewhat cheaper because they still have that low wage back on the mainland and a lot of investment in mass orange harvesting, or they might be able to ramp up the prices to higher than they were. Either way, China is winning. If prices remain lower, your local farmers continue to be unable to compete and you lose that local knowledge. But even if china gets greedier and ramps the price right up locals can't easily just start up another farm to compete and take advantage of the now higher prices because of a high barrier to entry and lack of knowledge AND the best spots are all already taken and china can always just do it again for one year and kill the new farms. And then you move to the next food product, then the next.
You cannot have free trade with china. But what I just talked about doesn't apply just to china or other nations with that co-ordination. Bigger companies will do it too. Supermarkets will loss-lead, selling bread and milk on the cheap to get you in the door and putting bread at the front to have the smell draw you in. But this is a manipulation, an advertisement campaign that kills your local baker who cannot do the same with his prices because the bread is all he sells and knows. Letting foreign companies who do not have any loyalty to their local area is the issue. Free trade inevitably means making your locals compete against foreigners with shit wages AND who don't care about your local long-term situation AND who are happy to co-ordinate in ways that destroys your local industries in an 'unfair' way, one that isn't simply about providing a better product at a lower price. Them being able to leverage their profits from one arm to run another arm at a loss for a short while for various reasons, to kill competition so they can later have a monopoly or as an advertisement is a fundamental flaw with free trade. Whichever the reason, you're now down a local family business for no good reason.
A third reason against 'free trade' meaning no tariffs is that tariffs are the least bad option in terms of taxation. What are your other choices, given even a minarchy's need to tax at least a little bit? Taxing productive work with an income tax? Taxing the successful and productive by taxing profits? The theft that is inheritance and wealth taxes*? Sin taxes? land taxes?Resource taxes? Well, ideally resource taxes actually, if you're in a situation like Norway (or like Australia SHOULD be) is in, you'd be able to not tax anybody doing anything productive, but effectively just 'sell' the resources under the ground. But the next best option after that and some sin taxes which won't cover your needs, is tariffs. It protects local industries, as compared to a local sales tax it in effect only hits the goods from foreigners, and is easier to collect at the gates coming in rather than burdening each and every business with taxes to track at each little transaction and gumming up all trade between people.
huh. I can't decide if you're right or not. And I was just working on proportions and stuff, so yeah I had a think about this.
In art and sculpting, basically nobody first learns or uses the more 'realistic'(and average looking) 7.5 head system, because of a few reasons. It's far more difficult for one, with all the landmarks falling at weird spots, but the 8 head system in addition to looking better has everything just fit nicely while also being plausible, it might not be the average but it's still well within the realm of possible, it's 'idealised'. But then to make something look extra heroic, people will go further and into an 8.5 or even 9 head system if pushing for a Greek god body, and the way you do that (at least when going to 8.5) is 90% in the shins. Just take an 8 head-scale body and extend that part of the leg down and it all just works, makes them look better even. And if you consider 6 foot the norm, the amount that going to an 8.5 head system from 8 heads stretches things is 4.5 inches I think. But the surgery does it in the femur first from what I'm reading here, and then the shins for some extra if needed? Or it's a choice between the two with different pros and cons according to this other website.
I wonder if perhaps there are certain people who it would fit, people who are already disproportionate in that their lower legs are actually a touch short, but that if this were a selection criteria this would exclude a lot of people from the profitable surgery. Or perhaps the limit of it still looking natural is lower, let's say you can get a mere 2 inches without it looking disproportionate, but the people who feel they need this surgery are so short that 2 inches won't help anything so invariably they shoot for more. Or they're going for the femur for mechanical/health reasons so it just doesn't look good as compared to the tibia/fibula. Or its the 'no makeup/good plastic surgery' effect where when done right and done subtly, we don't notice, it's only the bad disproportionate ones that we see and blame. Or in live 3d and with full texture, as compared to some static art or sculpture, it does look weird to have those proportions. Or perhaps it is that although 90% of the stretching is done in the lower legs in art, there are still some minor adjustments elsewhere, but you simply can't do that bone break and stretch surgery on all parts of 4 limbs, all that trouble 4 times over for just minor adjustments, hardly seems worth it. E: (or it's a gait/movement thing, they look normal when sat or stood still but it has affected their movement and their balance to make it awkward and unnatural)
Or some combination.
Take "bruh" for example, thats been a thing in Cali longer than I've been alive.
That was my first thought too. If 'Bruh' isn't ebonics, then it's Californian. Even worse?
I think they're separate though. The Californian 'brah' has a lower /a/ sound though and is used differently to 'bruh'. At least to my ears, 'brah' means bro more closely than 'bruh', there's more affection in it, and is an exclamation of appreciation, it is generally positive. Bruh has a more indignant or shocked use, its an exclamation used when something bad happens. Part of that is the populations using it I am sure. The stereotypically happy stoned californian hippy vs blacks are going to be using any form of 'bro' differently. But that then affects each version's use and its meaning when they are picked up elsewhere.
DnD is Satanic
Have you seen the people playing it now? The art for it now? The things that company does?
They may have had a point. And if it wasn't then, it certainly is now. It's all so queer now, I struggle to think of a franchise more pozzed.
only his own content, his lotus eaters stuff and the new mag they're publishing yeah.
No, I can’t tell a Chinese from a Japanese from a Korean
The chinese have fatter round faces, japanese are longer and more angular. Important life skill cmon, we might have to ally with one of these against the other, we can't just get them to yell lollapalooza
if a country has mandatory service, are there any adult civilians?
and it has been noted each generation is less religious than the last. Gen z pretty much didn't go to church ever.
Perhaps on average, but those gen z who do go, really go and take it seriously. The trad churches, the latin mass traditional catholic and eastern rites, the orthobros, they're all seeing a resurgence and it's coming from gen z.
have you forgotten about princess diana and who she died with? They're almost 100years ahead of your prediction
You know what, yes. Let's use that shithole as our dumping ground. The one place I want to take a bajillion immigrants. It's been more than paid for.
if this were a rule in TOW I might actually play it.
There's another few phenomena at play. It's easy to dismiss it all as a huge wave of over prescription for pill purposes. And that is a part of it. But I know something about this, I've studied it, and know some local history about it.
The city I was from has a long history of issues with ADHD diagnosis right. In this country it was infamous (at least in health/medicine circles) for it in the 90s and early 2000s, because that city's diagnosis rate was something like 10-20x the rest of the country. Was it something in the water? Or were we just better at diagnosing it? Eyebrows were raised, and audits were done, what was causing this huge apparent increase? Basically this first big wave of diagnosis ended in about 2001 after the gov inquiry because it turns out most of it wasn't legit, it was teens (last 3 years of school) and uni age students and there were 2 main clinics, two big clusters, where there was a huge surge of diagnoses. One in the northern part of the city, one in the rich southern suburbs.
What was happening was two things. The northern cluster was a bunch of parents after the not-meth, for use or for sale. But the other clinic was in a very well-to-do area and it mostly wasn't about the drugs. It was about exams. By getting the diagnosis of ADHD they got one of two things, for some it was an excuse for why their precious little diddums wasn't doing so well at school, it wasn't the kid (or the parent's fault), it was this disease they had. The 2nd was additional time in exams, they got extra time and accommodations in the big final 'SAT' (equivalent) tests done in the the final 2 years of school (and all other tests and assessments). This is an advantage even if you're a moderately smart student who studies well, extra time in the big final exams is huge when it then affects what unis and courses you can then get into. It could be the difference between getting into med school or not. And then these exam/assessment benefits continue into uni also so a decent chunk of it was 18-24 also.
So then there was a big state governmental push to clamp down on that stuff, and psychiatrists in that city became very reluctant to diagnose and prescribe for it. Once one did, word got out, and they'd get flooded with those patients, and nobody wanted the gov breathing down their neck on that after the big 2000's scandal for a while. So then we had this big wave of people who do actually have mild or moderate ADHD but who couldn't get the diagnosis because the pendulum swung the other way to being overly restrictive. Which then creates a another class of people getting the adult diagnosis, the ones who were missed in school because their case was mild/moderate but the pendulum had swung towards being overly restrictive when they went through.
So that's then means you have the following groups of people seeking it:
- Drug seekers (for personal use, or for sale, uni students pay for dexamphetamine for study AND fun)
- Excuse seekers
- Exam/assessment accommodation seekers
- Legit mild-moderate cases that won't get picked up till teen/adulthood even in a less restrictive time/place
- Legit mild-moderate cases that went through at a time when it was overly restrictive and so they got missed
- Tiktok and porn addled brains that are misdiagnosed as adhd
- (misc other motivations, or some combination)
I'm not saying that a lot of it isn't drugs. But looking at the historical causes in the city I'm from, a good 40-50% of it was excuse-seeking and exam gaming, not the drugs. And once a wave starts, it becomes self-perpetuating as their peers and parents hear about it, and seek it out themselves.
(E: as someone else mentioned, there's also some other modern causes, so add in things like 'attention-seeking' and 'not neurotypical' bullshit too, which motivate people to try to get diagnosed, it has become 'trendy' in some circles. That is on top of other things on the supply side making it easier)
that's related to T
The anti hairloss meds fuck with your T
Let it recede, or shave it off.
Nah it was real bad imo
Nostalgia bait crap with none of the humour the first one had. I chuckled once. I'm burnt out on cape shit, marvel humour, 4th wall breaking 'we know its bad that's the joke, wink' humour, multiple universes/timetravel, 'r-rated aren't we so edgy' humour, crossovers... and it was all of that.
But I could forgive all of that if it were funny. It wasn't.
Yeah, we agree on that, absolutely a product of the enlightenment. I'll go further, it's the enlightenment taken to one of it's natural conclusions.
vegetable wilson let his wife run things.
even satan can quote the bible.
it worked to oust liz truss
Why not try it again?
take a look at the size and regions of Christendom before and after islam, and how islam accomplished that.
They've been a problem for 1400 years. They might be more of a problem because of isreal right now. But still a problem.
Nier as in huge bootied robots, weird japanese mishmash of religion and philosophy as part of a nonsense soap-opera anime plot, tight action rpg done by platinum mechanics, or banger OST?